Freelance Content Designer

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pension scheme provider is seeking a freelance content expert to support their creative team in London. The role involves copywriting, content design, and creating digital content for web and email. Candidates must have 2-5 years of experience in the field, particularly in financial contexts, with strong communication and problem-solving skills. This position offers flexible hybrid working arrangements.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years’ experience in content design, UX writing, or digital copywriting.
• Experience in an institutional asset management company or media agency.
• Strong understanding of pensions and economic trends.

Responsibilities

• Support the creative team with copywriting and content design.
• Create SEO-optimised web copy and email campaigns.
• Develop video scripts and style guidance.

Skills

Content design

Copywriting

Editing

Problem-solving

Communication

Job description

Role Overview
We're looking for a sharp, self-motivated freelancer to support us with copywriting, copyediting, content design and problem-solving expertise.

You'll be working as part of the creative team, working with our creative strategist, senior designer, videographer, website manager and senior studio operations manager to create high impact comms. You'll mostly be working on digital content, including creating SEO-optimised web copy and email campaigns, and may also create video scripts, style guidance, and help to integrate our new tone of voice across different customer touchpoints.

The minimum criteria for this role are:

- 2-5 years’ experience in content design, UX writing, or digital copywriting
- Experience of writing in an institutional asset management company, or a media agency serving the investment and pensions industry or a news outlet covering the investment and pensions industry
- Strong understanding of pensions, markets and economic trends, with the ability to translate complex financial concepts into plain language
- Writing portfolio in finance or comparable subject areas
- Editing, proofreading and communication skills to a very high level
- Knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design
- Strong understanding of human-centred design principles
- Able to get up to speed and start contributing on projects from day one
- Good attention to detail


Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.


Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.
Flexible and agile working
Everyone's personal situation is different.
To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

- hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
- reduce or vary working hours
- reduce or vary the days worked
- work compressed hours
- job share

Click here to see the benefits we offer at Nest.
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Directorate/Department Overview

- Definition of our customer strategies
- Developing, maintaining and evolving our customer value propositions
- The brand and marketing of Nest to our customers
- The design of the service experience our customers enjoy across all channels
- Working with our partner, TCS, to deliver a service that delights our customers and keeps their data and assets safe


- Organisational Overview
Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.
We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme.
We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.

If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact [e-mail].